Monday, August 8, 2011

I Clothe This Page

Slowly, letter by letter, I clothe this page.
I have given it a bath, carefully washed
off the cliches, and dried it in the sun.

My hands are soft and pruney, yet calloused
from years of writing on virginal, milky white
paper - each word plucked from the shadows.

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